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The need to phase out tobacco farming
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Tobacco is responsible for 8 million deaths a year but despite that governments across the world spend millions supporting tobacco farms, according to WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus. As 31 May marks World No Tobacco Day, EURACTIV’s health team talks with Rudiger Krech, WHO Director of the Health Promotion Department, on the impact of toxic chemicals used in tobacco farms on farmers’ health and why it is important to move towards growing sustainable food crops instead of tobacco.
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